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Humanity in Focus
“I feel gifted to meet them,” Wayne says. “I feel honored to actually spend time and meet these people and hear their stories, connect with them. I love being there for their first footsteps in Europe. People singing, falling out of the boats because they are so excited, crying…even taking selfies with their eyes just…
Casa Video Top 10
Memorial Day weekend is here with it’s sunshine and commemorative military events. Still, with three days off, it’s tempting to dedicate at least a few hours to relaxing at home with television being the closest thing to connection with the outside world. Here’s your weekly list of the most popular movies from Casa Video. Deadpool The…
Downtown Kitchen’s Around the Globe Series Celebrates UNESCO Cities of Gastronomy, Starting with Parma
The time has come, once again, to take culinary excursions to far away places courtesy of the Downtown Kitchen + Cocktail (135 S. Sixth Ave.) Around the Globe menu series. While the event has taken diners from Buenos Aires to Mocsow to Hanoi and more in past years, this year’s series has something special in…
Start Summer in the Pool: We’re Giving Away Tickets to Breakers Water Park
School is out, temperatures are rising and (finally!) public pools around Tucson are opening. Breakers Water Park is among those summer institutions preparing to open their doors this weekend. Want to go? We’re giving away tickets! Tell us how many you want (don’t be greedy! Maximum 8.), give us your name and phone number and…
8 Events to Help You Celebrate Memorial Day
Memorial day is the federal holiday dedicated to remembering those who have died while serving in our country’s armed forces. Looking for something to do this Memorial weekend? Here’s a list to keep you busy in and around the Tucson area. Hymns for Our Heroes Santa Cruz Summer Winds and the Jazz Collective of…
Miniature Museum, Giant Recognition
Tucson has a lot of unique places to check out, but one in particular is getting noticed this week. The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures (4455 E. Camp Lowell Dr) here in Tucson was recognized by BuzzFeed this week as one of the 10 Quirky U.S. Destinations Every Wanderer Should Discover. Calling it a…
NIMB (Not In My Budget) Is the New NIMBY
This, I think, is a brand new acronym: NIMB: Not In My Budget. It’s when politicians admit, yes, we may need to spend money to fund necessary government services, but it’s not coming from our coffers. “Not In My Budget. You’ll have to find the money somewhere else.” It explains so much about what’s going…
Federal Immigration Officials Plan to Open a Detention Center with Unit That Will Only House Transgender Migrants
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has plan to open a new detention center in Texas that will include a unit to specifically house transgender immigrants. An article on Fusion says the Prairieland Detention Center will open in November in Alvarado, Texas—around 30 minutes south of Fort Worth—and “will operate with the agency’s most advanced care guidelines…
A Blind Pup and His Guide Dog/Best Friend Need a Home
Meet Fubu and Cheerio!Cheerio, a beautiful 8 year-old male German shepherd, has no eyes. His glaucoma was neglected for more than three years, and both of his eyes were removed to relieve his pain. He gets by with help from his friend and companion, Fubu, who serves as Cheerio’s eyes. Fubu is a 7 year-old…
Arizona Joins Federal Lawsuit Against Obama Demanding Public Schools to Allow Transgender Students Use Bathroom Matching Gender Identity
Arizona has joined 10 other states in a federal lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s mandate asking public K-12 schools and post-secondary schools to allow transgender children and youth use the locker room and bathroom of the gender they identify with. The lawsuit calls Obama’s mandate “federal overreach,” and focuses on setting rules about who should…
Study: Recreational Marijuana Could Bring AZ $113 Million in New Revenue
Legalizing recreational marijuana and establishing a 15 percent tax on it could bring Arizona $113 million in new revenue, according to a study by the non-partisan group Tax Foundation. The Arizona study is based on sales per capita in Colorado and Washington—both states legalized weed four years ago. The study says that if all 50…
Cinema Clips: Money Monster
Director Jodie Foster goes for a 1970s throwback vibe while approaching a modern financial subject in this valiant but messy effort starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Clooney plays Lee Gates, host of Money Monster, a sensationalist financial program that features Gates dancing around the studio and making stock tips. Not all of Gates’ tips…
Get Five Courses of Prep & Pastry Brunch (and Plenty of Beer) at Tucson Hop Shop
Look, we all love brunch and many in town look to one restaurant to satisfy all their boozy breakfast needs. So many, in fact, that getting a table at the well-loved Prep & Pastry on the weekends can sometimes be a challenge. For those looking to get a taste of P&P without the wait, get…
Cinema Clips: Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
The first half of this Seth Rogen sequel is as funny and snappy as the first movie, but the movie loses its way a bit by the time credits roll. Still, if you are looking at laughs per dollar, Rogen and Zac Efron deliver your money’s worth. The spin this time out has a sorority…
Doug Ducey Gets a Pathetic Score in Sierra Club’s Environmental Report Card
Sure, in March Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed two bills that would have killed restrictions to pump groundwater in Cochise and Yuma counties (The Arizona Republic reported at the time that if the bills would have become law, it would have enabled at housing developments to move forward without proving long-term water availability). Still, this year…
Ducey ‘Next Step’ Watch: Day 5
It’s Day 5 of the Ducey “Next Step” Watch, which began Friday when the governor declared that Prop 123 passed. Lots has happened on the school funding front since then, but not much of it has come from Ducey. If you remember, when he was asked what he plans as a next step after the…
Patchouli Needs a Home
Hi, I’m Patchouli! I’m a 10 year old little calico cat who needs a home. I look a little bit different with my crumpled ears and I have a little bobbed tail. I love people and being snuggled, I practically beg for attention from anyone who walks by my kennel. I’m very affectionate and will…
Keep the Kids Full With These Free Summer Meal Programs
Want to make sure your children eat health while school is out? Not to worry, school districts are offering free breakfast and lunch all summer long for kids 18 and under. Meals are served in school site cafeterias or in designated eating areas for the non-school sites. The Summer Food Service Program for Children is…
Miller Continues To Stand by Aide Who May Have Created Bogus News Site To Support Her Campaign
Here are the weekend’s developments in the story of the Arizona Daily Herald, an online news site that came to life for about 24 hours on Facebook before evaporating from the web. As the Weekly already reported here and here, a 19-year-old communications aide to Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller, Timothy DesJarlais, has an online…
Summer Safari Friday Nights
Family, food, fun and furry friends, Reid Park Zoo’s Summer Safari Nights has it all! Enjoy the Zoo every Friday evening of the summer, with live music, animal features and dining. Each week will have a different theme. The first Summer Safari kicked off last Friday, but there’s still plenty of time to go on…
Cinema Clips: The Family Fang
Jason Bateman follows up his strong directorial debut, Bad Words, with The Family Fang, a loopy tale about a quirky, dysfunctional family that never really finds its way. The film gets off to a good start, with Bateman playing Baxter Fang, a down-and-out writer trying to put together his next novel but taking odd writing…
Zona Politics: Fitz, Carroll and a Proposed USS Arizona Memorial on the UA Mall
May 22, 2016 from Zona Politics with Jim Nintzel on Vimeo. On this weekend’s episode of Zona Politics: Arizona Daily Star cartoonist and columnist David Fitzsimmons sits down to talk about Donald Trump, Doug Ducey, Ally Miller and more. Then Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll talks about why he’s calling it quits and how the…
Pima County Supe Ally Miller’s Aide Claims He Was Victim of Online Impersonation and Did Not Try to Masquerade as a Reporter, But The Story Seems Less Than Credible
The bizarre story about Pima County Supervisor Ally Miller’s staffer, Timothy DesJarlais, has taken some new twists today. As the Weekly reported yesterday, DesJarlais has an alter ego, Jim Falken, and recently someone had used the Falken name to create an online news site and to query members of the Board of Supervisors as well…
Casa Video Top 10
Has anyone else been ready for this week to be over since last Sunday? Celebrate the weekend with sour beer, some time by pool and maybe a few movies. Here’s a look at the 10 most popular movies at Casa Video last week: Deadpool The Revenant Joy Ride Along 2 The 5th Wave The Lady…
Ducey ‘Next Step’ Watch: Day 1
Mark the date, May 20, 2016. That’s the day Governor Ducey declared that Prop 123, his “first step” to improve Arizona education, passed. The count isn’t official yet, but Ducey believes it’s a done deal. So now it’s time to find out what he has in mind for the next step. When Howard Fischer asked…
Come Mid-June, Pima County Will Fine You for Texting and Driving
The Pima County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a “no texting while driving” ordinance this week. Really, it’s a rule that should have been obvious even before an ordinance passed. Keeping your eyes on the road and off Facebook is a great idea—it usually makes you avoid crashing into another car or running over a…
Veterans Affairs Doctors in Some States (Like AZ) Could Soon Recommend Medical Marijuana to Patients
The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Thursday an amendment that would allow Veterans Affairs doctors to recommend medical marijuana to patients in states where using medicinal cannabis is legal—like Arizona. The amendment was attached to a military appropriations bill. The Senate approved a similar amendment in a spending bill that would go into effect…
Did Pima County Supe Ally Miller’s Communications Guy Masquerade as a Reporter and Try To Cover Her Campaign?
In the way-new media world, online news sites come and go. But few live as brief a life as the Arizona Daily Herald, which barely posted a story on Facebook before it vanished from the web earlier this week. The Herald was, purportedly, the work of one Jim Falken, who does not seem to exist…
Summer Reading List: 5 Fiction Books by Tucsonans
For some extremely lucky folks, summer means time off. Spend some of that time off with your brain on, reading books by local authors. I’m linking to Amazon order pages for ease but don’t let that stop you from picking these books up from your favorite indie bookstore instead. The Whale: A Love Story by Mark…
Editor’s Note
Mari says she’s never understood why anyone would care if a transgender person was in the same bathroom at their local watering hole or department store.
Dust Devil
Walking past city gardens locked within their fences
Police Dispatch
A UA employee was mildly traumatized when she encountered a graphic depiction of female genitalia in the women’s restroom.
Police Dispatch
Police in a UA parking garage made a drug bust—but not as big of a bust as they might’ve anticipated from appearances.
Tucson Salvage
Just a long trudge to cap another day, the green more greener, the night more night.
It Don’t Mean a Thing …
The Southern Arizona Arts Council gets swinging with a retro celebration of the arts on Saturday.
The Skinny
AZ Sec of State fails to properly cover up her failure to inform voters about Prop 123, Southern AZ congresswoman restores the rights of WWII-era servicewomen to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery and McSally opposes plan to draw down troops in Afghanistan
What’s in Store: Chicago Music Store
Chicago Music Store’s longstanding storefront on Sixth Avenue and Congress Street has been a beacon of consistency in downtown Tucson during an era of development. In February, the store downsized to a space less than one block away, and although the physical shop is decidedly different from the original, the ethos behind it is the…
Meat Your Master: Jay’s Barbecue
“You can’t just stick a meat thermometer in and tell if a brisket is done,” he says. “You have to pick it up and feel it.”
B-Sides: Logan & Lucille
You can catch the locals live at 191 Toole
Desert Abundance
The Arid Abundance Community Potluck is Thursday at the Native Seeds/SEARCH Conservation Center.
B-Sides: Hello, Summer
Kicking off the season, you can catch local hip hop artists Jae Tilt and Lando Chill, alongside Tucson bands The Rifle and Whispering Wires on Saturday
Viva El Jefe!
The Center for Biological Diversity are unveiling a jaguar mural on Thursday.
B-Sides: Copper & Congress
Benefitting Coalición de Derechos Humanos, Copper & Congress, PIPELiGHTS and Tina Estes will perform at The Flycatcher
Seeking Justice
The Mass Incarceration Series from the good folks at the YWCA of Southern Arizona continues with part six on juvenile justice on Wednesday
B-Sides: Moodie Black
Although the industry-defying, rebellious antics of Death Grips get the Sacramento trio a lot of attention, it’s worth saying that they certainly weren’t the ones to start mixing the worlds of rap and noise music into a fuzzy, intense, industrial mash of sound and attitude.
Pool Party
Pool parties mean it is officially summer.
Small is Beautiful
Artist Jo Andersen has a wonderfully loose definition of “spire.”
Mystery Solved
There is a phenomenon in the theater world that consists of a play that opened in 1952 and is still running today. It began life as a 30-minute radio broadcast in 1947, a request by Queen Mary for her 80th birthday, and with some revision, it developed into the little play that could.
Valiantly Predictable
Director Jodie Foster goes for a 1970s throwback movie vibe while approaching a modern financial subject in Money Monster, a valiant but messy effort starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
The Big U: Kate Becker
Blowing into a conch shell as she drove north away from the Florida Keys, Kate Becker finally got the sound to come out right. In that moment, she felt the spark of her new album.
